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Russell L. Mack

US Air Force officer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ105413589 ↗
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Russell L. Mack is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general who served as the deputy commander of the Air Combat Command from 2021 to 2023. He previously served as the assistant deputy chief of staff for operations of the United States Air Force.

In July 2021, he was nominated for promotion to lieutenant general and assignment as the deputy commander of Air Combat Command.

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This entry incorporates text from “Russell L. Mack” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.